Welcome to workaround.org

Good to have you here. Look around and feel free to comment on any page. I'm always interested in feedback.

If you are looking for my blog about the Motorrad-Führerschein please check out my personal site: christoph-haas.de.

Debian Buster guide is online

After weeks of research, testing and writing the new guide for Debian Buster is finally online!

The famous ISP-style mail server tutorial lives here. Learn how to set up your own fully-functional mail server using Postfix, Dovecot IMAP/POP3 and MySQL backend on a Debian server just like your favorite mail or website hosting provider. This guide is a voluntary project with no profit in mind. Go ahead and learn to run your own mail server.

My projects

I am a system administrator and programmer. In my nerdy spare time I work on web applications, Python and Ruby programs, write articles or explore new software technologies. On workaround.org you can find news, solutions and hints on my findings and get help. Of course your feedback is welcome.
These are some projects I am currently working on:

IRC – Internet relay chat

knoba's factoids
I run a bot called knoba (short for knowledge base) on the freenode IRC network. Two channels I visit frequently are #postfix and #squid. So I have fed the bot with lots of factoids that you can query using !foobar in the channel. These are the factoids understood in #squid and #postfix. Please don't play with the bot publicly. Send it a "/msg knoba help" and learn how it works.

Linux tips

My daily work leads to various discoveries and insights. Some were petty but others really brightened my day.

Zabbix monitoring

Zabbix is a mighty open-source monitoring software. If you need a serious system for your organisation and manage to condone its creepy web interface it is hands down the the most superior software I have ever seen. And I have been dealing with monitoring software since Nagios was called Netsaint.

These articles should help you in your daily work maintaining a monitoring system:

If any of the content on workaround.org has made your daily life less miserable you are invited to donate via Paypal to email@christoph-haas.de. I also have a wish list of Amazon things for my projects if you would like to surprise me. However please don't feel obliged.